Rocky Anderson on Technology

Justice Party challenger for President; former mayor of Salt Lake City

Put 20 million to work on deteriorating infrastructure

STEIN: We are calling for a Green New Deal modeled after the New Deal that actually got us out of the Great Depression. They created approximately 4 million jobs in as little as two months.

ANDERSON: During the last 43 months we have had more than
8% unemployment. It is the only time in this nation's history that we have had a president that has presided even over three years of over 8% unemployment. There are things that have been proven in our history to work.
We could have put in place, and it needs to be put in immediately, a WPA Works Progress Administration kind of program where we are investing in the future by building up our nation's rapidly deteriorating infrastructure, putting people to work.
In the WPA project they 8.5 million people to work. We could be putting 20 million to 25 million people to work and making that kind of investment in our nation's future.